Auhausen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Auhausen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Oettingen in Bavaria
Height :	422 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.55 km 2
Residents:	1014 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86736
Area code :	09832
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 117
Community structure:	9 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Klosterstrasse 12 86736 Auhausen
Website :	www.auhausen.de
First Mayor :	Martin Weiß (Free Community of Voters / Independent List)
Location of the municipality of Auhausen in the Donau-Ries district

Auhausen from the northeast

Auhausen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and a member of the Oettingen administrative community in Bavaria .

geography

Auhausen is the northernmost municipality in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia and is located on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries , about six kilometers north of Oettingen . The Wörnitz flows past to the west , at the southern edge of the Bruckbach , which flows into the Wörnitz to the southwest. There are numerous recreational areas and historic towns around Auhausen.

The municipality consists of two districts , which correspond to the former municipalities, and has nine municipality parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

• Auhausen ( parish village ) with Heuhof ( wasteland ), Pfeifhof (wasteland), Wachfeld ( hamlet ) and Zirndorf (hamlet)
• Dornstadt ( Kirchdorf ) with Hirschbrunn (Kirchdorf) and Linkersbaindt (Forsthaus)
• Lochenbach ( village )

The forester's house Linkersbaindt is an exclave in the municipality-free area of Dornstadt-Linkersbaindt to the north .

The Einöde Hof am Schmarrenweiher has gone , the Leberhöfe ^▼ were demolished in 1873.

history

Until the church is planted

Auhausen is first mentioned in a document in the year 959, when Otto I gave his faithful Hartmann the property in Auhausen and Westheim, which had been judicially confiscated from a Ernst . In 1136 Pope Innocent II mentions Auhausen in a privilege for the already existing monastery. The exact founding of the place, like that of the Benedictine monastery , cannot be documented. Nevertheless, for historical and place-name reasons, one can assume that the (Franconian) town was founded in the 9th century, possibly as an extension of Westheim or Geilsheim . The years between 1129 and 1133 can be assumed for the foundation of the monastery, because the founder, Hartmann von Auhausen, appears in a document in February 1133 as a witness of the Naumburg bishop in the Saale valley . Here he, his three sons and his grandchildren founded the dynasty of the Lords of Lobedeburg with a new headquarters in and later above Jena-Lobeda . Except for splinters of goods, he handed over the ownership of the Wörnitz to the new monastery. The noble lords of Auhausen can be identified with gaps from 959 to 1129 in connection with Auhausen or Alerheim (only burgrave office). The departure of the lords of A. made the inhabitants subjects of the monastery for centuries.

For the history of the monastery up to 1534 see Sturm in Ref.

Insurgent peasants ravaged the monastery during the Peasants' War in May 1525. In 1530 the last abbot Georg Truchseß fled from Wetzhausen to Eichstätt. The monastery joined the Lutheran doctrine and was dissolved in 1537. The monastery church became a parish church. The property of the monastery was under the newly created monastery administrator's office in Auhausen , which was part of the Ansbach Oberamt Wassertrüdingen .

In 1608 the Protestant princes of the empire united in the Auhausen Monastery to form the protective alliance of the Protestant Union . Most of the monastery buildings were demolished in the 19th century.

At the end of the 18th century there were 86 subject families in Auhausen. The authority of the monastery administrator in Auhausen held the village and community rulership and the land rulership over all properties. Persons covered by Karl August von Hardenberg as Prussian minister in Ansbach-Bayreuth enforced Prussian-oettingischen border adjustments 1796 the ansbachische steward fell to the Count Oettingen-Spielberg and in their media coverage with the Act of Confederation in 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Here the former Franconian Auhausen was assigned together with Oettingen to the Swabian Upper Danube District or the later administrative region of Swabia .

2008/2009 was the festival year for the 1050th anniversary of the first documentary mention of Auhausen and the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Protestant Union of Auhausen in 1608.

Incorporations

On October 1, 1975, the previously independent municipality of Lochenbach was incorporated, and Dornstadt was added on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 993 to 1,006 inhabitants or by 1.3%.

• 1961: 1078 inhabitants
• 1970: 1012 inhabitants
• 1987: 0992 inhabitants
• 1991: 1051 inhabitants
• 1995: 1089 inhabitants
• 2000: 1113 inhabitants
• 2005: 1100 inhabitants
• 2010: 1032 inhabitants
• 2015: 1055 inhabitants

politics

Martin Weiß (FWG / UHL) , who was elected on March 16, 2014 , has been mayor of Auhausen since May 2014 ; he was re-elected with 91.1% in the local elections in March 2020 . The predecessor was Wilhelm Dorner (Free Voters Association / Independent).

The municipal council will be composed as follows for the 2020 to 2026 term:

• Free Community of Voters / Independent List: 7 seats
• Unity and Peace Dornstadt: 5 seats

Attractions

West facade of the Romanesque former monastery church

Hirschbrunn Palace

• Parish Church of St. Maria : Former monastery church, three-aisled Romanesque basilica with Gothic choir and characteristic double tower facade. For church construction and furnishings, see the information in Dehio, pp. 151–154 in Ref.
  • High altar from 1513 by Hans Schäufelin
  • Pillar frescoes: u. a. St. Sorrow , St. Antonius Abbas (Order of Antonites) with piggy, last third of the 15th century.
  • Murals
  • Works by Loy Hering , Eichstätt, and his workshop: Wetzhausen monument u. Sacramentarium 1521, tombstone Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen until 1530.
  • Wooden ceiling in the nave of the nave 1542 with grisaille painting by Jesse Herlin, Nördlingen.
  • old choir stalls from 1420 in the northern extension (side chapel)
  • Stalls in the choir 1519 by Melchior Schabert, Donauwörth
  • Donor tomb 1542 by Hans Fuchs, Nördlingen
  • Organ by Georg Martin Gessinger, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, with a prospectus from 1776 and old high choir tuning. 1976/77 by Steinmeyer, Oettingen renovated with the addition of a second manual
• Hirschbrunn Castle (part of the Dornstadt municipality), built by Peter and Hans Alberthal , owned by the Princely House of Oettingen-Spielberg (not open to the public), with the castle chapel ( open to the public during services)

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Auhausen

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 217 employees subject to social insurance contributions in 2017; 431 of the inhabitants were in employment contracts subject to compulsory insurance, so that the number of out-commuters was 214 higher. In 2016 there were 31 farms; 1258 hectares of the community area were used for agriculture.

traffic

Auhausen is on the Nördlingen – Gunzenhausen railway line , on which there is currently no regular passenger traffic. The state road St 2221 through the town and connects it to Oettingen in the south and Wassertruedingen in the north.

education

In 2018 there was a day-care center with 60 approved places and 36 children.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Philipp Meyer (1896–1962), German politician and member of the Bundestag (CSU)
• Otto Meyer-Auhausen (1893–1970), manufacturer, writer, author a. a. an autobiography (see literature)

Literature (selection)

• 400 years of the Protestant Union of Auhausen 1608–2008 . Festschrift. Auhausen 2008
• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Auhausen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 200–201 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Bavaria III: Swabia. Munich / Berlin 2008
• Herbert Dettweiler: Old boundary stones in the Ries. Ground monuments of a special kind . Noerdlingen 2003
• Hans Großkopf: The Lords of Lobdeburg near Jena. A Thuringian-Easter dynasty from the 12th to the 15th century . Neustadt an der Orla 1929
• Georg Paul Hönn : Auhausen . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 315-316 ( digitized version ).
• Dieter Kudorfer: Nördlingen . Historical atlas of Bavaria. Part Swabia. Issue 8. Munich 1974
• Donau-Ries district . Donauwörth 1991, pp. 270-273 and 727/728
• Christof Metzger: Hans Schäufelin as a painter . Berlin 2002
• Otto Meyer-Auhausen: Even if the light went out. My fate in life . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1936
• Otto Meyer: When the village was still my world . Swabian-Franconian Heimatverlag, Oettingen 1963.
• With trumpets and trombones… . 60 years of Auhausen trombone choir 1948–2008. Festschrift. Auhausen 2008
• Arndt Müller: Hartmann von Auhausen - his donor's grave in the Protestant parish church in Auhausen an der Wörnitz . In: Rieser Kulturtage . Documentation Volume XIII / 2000. Nördlingen 2001, pp. 429-463
• Arndt Müller: Images of the Volto Santo and St. Sorrow in the Ries and its surroundings . In: Rieser Kulturtage . Documentation Volume XVI / 2006. Nördlingen 2007, pp. 309-349
• Arndt Müller: From the Wörnitz to the Saale. On the early history of the Lords of Auhausen up to around 1130 . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Nördlingen and the Ries. Volume 32 (2009). Nördlingen 2009, pp. 135-175
• Peter Reindl: Loy Herring . Basel 1977
• Albert Schlagbauer , Wulf-Dietrich Kavasch (ed.): Rieser biographies . Noerdlingen 1993
• Willi Schorr (Ed.): 1500 years of Franconia in Westheim . 4 volumes. Munich 1996 ff.
• Klaus Sturm: History of the Auhausen Monastery on the Wörnitz . Collection sheet of the Eichstätt Historical Society, 63rd year 1969/70. Eichstatt 1970

Web links

Commons : Auhausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Entry on the coat of arms of Auhausen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Auhausen: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Auhausen in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Oettingen administrative community in Bavaria: Auhausen> About Auhausen> Municipal Council> Members. Retrieved May 19, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Auhausen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 3, 2019.
4. ↑ Müller, Yearbook 2009 in Ref.
5. ↑ The monastery during the peasant wars
6. ^ Johann Bernhard Fischer : Auhausen . In: Statistical and topographical description of the Burggraftum Nürnberg, below the mountain, or the Principality of Brandenburg-Anspach. Second part. Containing the economic, statistical and moral condition of these countries according to the fifteen upper offices . Benedict Friedrich Haueisen, Ansbach 1790, p. 379 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ JK Bundschuh, Vol. 1, Col. 200
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 793 and 794 .
9. ↑ Metzger, pp. 314–329
10. ↑ Müller 2006, pp. 325–327
11. ↑ Reindl, pp. 293-296, 407
12. ↑ Rieser Biographien, pp. 162–164
13. ↑ Müller 2000 in Lit
14. ↑ Rieser Biographien, p. 255